Message #5169

[rlspalding]

Gary,
I just took two private lessons from a PMTS instructor. he had a great excercise to practice this movement you are talking about.  in a stopped position (skis perpendicular to the fall line) and both poles in the uphill hand.  release your skis so you start heading down hill. As you start heading down hill, use your empty down hill hand and apply very firm pressure to your downhill knee, all the way through the turn until you start going back up the hill.  This will "force" the tipping movement that is stressed in PMTS, and what I believe you are referring to in this post?

This exercise of course is only to stress the "tipping" action preached in PMTS. When you do this you look back at your trail and you will have naturally made almost a perfect arc with two thing parallel lines of where your skis were. I was having trouble with "washing" when I made turns, this exercise helped me practice the tipping and the force required to do it properly when I turn now.